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p.34 "Sit down and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry enough!"
p.37 "Mine is a long and a sad tale"
p.42 "there is hardly any room for you, and no room at all for any lesson books"
p.71 "I dare say you never even spoke to Time!"
Page Number
 Example
 Type of Word Play
P.26
 "Curiouser and curiouser!"
 Lexicon
P.28
 "How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!
 Parody (of "Against Idleness And Mischief" by Isaac Watts
P.28
 "Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day!"
 Assonance
P.34
 "Sit down and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry enough!"
 Pun
P.34
 "I move that the meeting adjourm, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies__"
 Lexicon (of the dodo)
P.37
 "Mine is a long and sad tale." "A long and sad tail."
 Pun
P.42
 "There is hardly any room for you, and no room at all for any lesson books
 Syntax
P.55
 "Let me alone!"
 Diction
P.68
 "Your hair wants cutting."
 Personification
P.69
 "Why, you might just as well say that 'I say what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"
 Syntax
P.69
 "You might just as well say that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I see'!"
 Syntax
P.69
 "You might just as well say that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!"
 Syntax
P.71
 "I dare say you never even spoke to Time!"
 Personification
P.71
 "Twinkle, Twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at!"
 Parody
p.72
 "Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle"
 Repitition
p.74
 "You can draw water out of a water-well, why
P.74

P.75
 "-that begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness..."
 Alliteration
P.75
 "muchness..."
 Lexicon
P.93
 "...the different branches of arithemetic---Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
 Pun/Parody
P.97
 "Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?"
 Repetition
P.99
 "No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise."
 Pun
P.102
 "...Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!"
 Repitition
P.115
 "Stuff and nonsense!"
 Diction